Scala programming jobs

Every once in a while I query the job search engines to see what’s out there these days. I first did this in February, 2013, and have looked at them again every few months since then.

I especially like to look at Dice.com because most of those jobs are for contractors, and when businesses can't find full-time employees with certain skills -- such as new programming languages -- they hire contractors. This is also an indication of new projects that businesses are staffing up for.

Current Scala and Akka job data

I've only looked at Scala job posting data a few times, and here are the Dice.com results:

February, 2013

I don’t trust the data from indeed.com. They list jobs multiple times, and keep things online forever, so I don’t look at them any more, not for data like this.

As mentioned earlier, Dice lists contracting jobs, so with a new technology like Scala, I think they’re a decent indicator of the coming market. (That’s just my opinion, though.) I know that when I worked at a NASA subcontractor, we hired contractors either because (a) they were much better than other people we could hire, or (b) because they knew an up-and-coming technology we didn’t know.